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A story about pie and stupid diseases

Nobody expects their chicken pot pie to be interrupted with the sudden need to go to the emergency room, so you can imagine my surprise when that’s exactly what happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Three hours, two pills and an EKG later, I’m the lucky winner of an acid reflux disease called [...]

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Personal Finance: Lifestyle Inflation

Recently a friend linked me to an article by Amy Chan, the adorable author of www.amyfabulous.com. The piece is titled “My Very Own Choose Your Own Adventure” and the point she pushes is that there is no “correct” way to do things. She compares the facets of life to the adventure books in which you [...]

Desk inspiration

Life is changing. I haven’t updated y’all in a minute and I’m sorry for that, but along with change comes less time (sometimes). Rather than write a lengthy post to get you all back on track, I decided to share some photos (sorry about the shitty quality. If you’d like to see nicer photos featured [...]

Let’s go to sleep in Paris, and wake up in Tokyo

The nesting phase continues. I found an old map of the United States folded up and tucked away in one of my books. When I was in elementary school, it was pinned to my bedroom wall and there were tacks stuck in the places I wanted to visit at some point in my life. (I [...]